While the image of the “mad mullah” and swarming masses of fanatical Muslims poised to rend asunder Western Civilization is an image that has been resurrected from prior centuries and is propagated by the apologists for Israel with increasing vigor, the mythic spectre has served to obscure the anti-Christian foundations of the Zionist state. Hence, the spectacle of “Christian Zionists” as among the most fanatical defenders of Israel is an historical travesty that is as odd as would have been Christian Fundamentalists supporting the League of Militant Atheists in the USSR. Indeed, there is an analogy: The League of Militant Atheists avidly sought the obliteration of Christianity in the Soviet state; Zionists, and Orthodox believers in the Talmud who have a major presence in Israel, are as zealous in obliterating Christianity from the Holy Land as their Bolshevik counterparts of yesteryear. Yet, how widely realized is it that Israel is a state where Christianity is repressed and despised?
This month a hint of the situation was publicly exposed by two events: (1) the vandalizing of the Protestant Cemetery of Mount Zion in what Christian leaders in Israel state is the latest in “a string of relentless attacks on church properties and religious sites”; and (2) the death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
Unsurprisingly, the news does not seem to have been featured in the manner by which the desecration of a Jewish site would receive from then world’s mass media. In particular, there have been no worldwide protests and street parades demonstrating outrage, of the type that takes place when even minor vandalism is inflicted on Jewish sites, when such actions are treated with such gravity as to inspire calls for new laws to stop the “rise of anti-Semitism.”
While New Zealand’s Dominion Post newspaper, serving the capital region, devoted two sentences to the subject,[1] the most detailed report seems to have been written by Daniel Estrin of the Associated Press. Estrin reports that four Israeli youths were arrested but were released without charge until further questioning. Two of the youths were affiliated with “Hilltop Youth,” a group responsible for attacks in recent years on Christian and Muslim sites, and Israeli army property in protest at Israeli government policy; and two youths who were students at a Jewish seminary.
There have been many high profile sites vandalized over the past year, including a Trappist monastery in Latrun, outside Jerusalem, where vandals burned a door and spray-painted “Jesus is a monkey” on the century-old building, a Baptist church in Jerusalem, and other monasteries. “Clergymen often speak of being spat at by ultra-Orthodox religious students while walking around Jerusalem’s Old City wearing frocks and crosses.” Search for Common Ground (SCG), an NGO that monitors news reports of attacks on religious sites, states that 17 Christian sites have been reported vandalized over the past three years. However, a police detective in charge of Christian affairs told SCG the number of vandalized sites is higher, but Christian leaders did not report many of the attacks to the media. Additionally, SCG does not include vandalism in the Old City of Jerusalem in its survey, because many of the sites are in dispute and the organization wants to be seen as neutral. Hana Bendcowsky of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations, states that Christian leaders often do not file complaints with police because many are in Israel on special visas and want to maintain good relations with authorities. She states that there is a strong feeling that police are not really interested in the problem, although police spokesmen claim otherwise.[2]
The Najran Massacre: A Christian Holocaust by Jews
Zionism was created around the fiction that “anti-Semitism” is inherent within the “goyim” psyche, and that Jews must therefore remove themselves from goy society. It was therefore necessary to contrive a history of Gentile-Jewish relations that depicted the Jews as constantly facing persecution through the entirety of their history. This also necessitates the portrayal of Jews as at all times sinless victims of that inherent goy psychosis of “anti-Semitism.” Another perspective is that the perpetrators of the ages old persecution myth are suffering from paranoid psychosis. Certainly, when it has been Jews with the upper hand they have been none too charitable towards their defeated enemies, as the Torah and other books of the Old Testament quickly show. One of the most famous, recorded in the “Book of Esther,” is the slaughter of 75,000 Persians by Jews once they got the upper hand, a slaughter that continues to be celebrated today at the Feast of Purim, where “Haman cakes” are eaten, Haman being one of history’s first “anti-Semites,” and there is much boisterous rejoicing.
In 500 AD, the inhabitants of Najran in southern Arabia converted to Christianity, but in 522 the Jewish Himyarite king of Yemen began the persecution of Christians, who asked for the Ethiopian assistance. With the Himyarite defeat of the Ethiopians in 523 the Najran Christians were massacred. Najran had been the first place in South Arabia where Christianity was established, and had a large community with the seat of a Bishopric.
The Jewish King of Yemen, Yusuf As’ar Dhu Nuwas, aimed to create a “Davidic” kingdom, but Christian Najran was an important trade route in the way. When the Najran Christians refused to abandon their faith 20,000 were said to have been burned alive, or beheaded and their bodies thrown into flaming pits. A document by Bishop Simeon of Beth Arsham on the Najran holocaust records that a Najran noblewoman named Ruhm brought her daughter before Dhu Nuwas and defiantly stated: “Cut off our heads, so that we may go join our brothers and my daughter’s father.” The daughter and a granddaughter were decapitated and Ruhm was forced to drink the blood. King Dhu Nuwas then asked, “How does your daughter’s blood taste to you?” to which Ruhm replied: “Like a pure spotless offering: that is what it tasted like in my mouth and in my soul.”
A difference between Islam and Judaism is that whereas the Koran honors Jesus as a prophet and his mother Mary, the Orthodox Jewish Talmud, or religious codex, describes them in what we might call less than flattering terms. Hence, Islam honors the Christian martyrs of Najran, the Koran stating of them: “…slain were the men of the pit, the fire abounding in fuel, when they were seated over it, and were themselves witnesses of what they did with the believers. They took revenge on them because they believed in God the All-mighty, the All-laudable…”[3]
As word spread of the Jewish holocaust on the Najran Christians, Najran became a center of pilgrimage that rivalled Mecca. Al-Harith, the leader of the Christian Arabs at Najran, who had been killed, was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as St. Aretas. The Catholic Church honors the Christian martyrs of this Jewish holocaust on October 24. A Catholic periodical states of the atrocity:
The leader of these ancient Christians was a certain ‘Abd Allah ibn Harith (who became St. Aretas in the Roman martyrology). He and his soldiers were beheaded. Priests, deacons, nuns and laymen were thrown into a ditch filled with burning fuel. Four thousand [4] men, women, and children were slain, including a boy of five who jumped into the flames to be with his mother.[5]
I cite this example to show that the tales of persecution of Jews by the goyim since ancient items are one-dimensional and have been made into both a religion and a political doctrine that has become central to Jewish thinking and the foundations of the Zionist state; while Jewish persecution of Christians or Muslims cannot even be acknowledged by Jewish Officialdom on any level. It is the religious zealots of Orthodox Judaism who, however, blow the cover on the pathological hatred some influential sections of Judaism and Zionism have towards Christianity, while Zionist lobbyists and politicians court self-styled “Christian Zionists.”
Excellent article. Thank you for helping to bring to light the anti-Christian sentiment, violence and discrimination suffered in the past and today, still, in Israel.
Winston Churchill said “A lie can run half way around the world before the truth can get it`s pants on!”
Zionist have, for at least 100 years, propagated lies and misinformation, to a Western world`s population who readily accepted Zionist conditioning without question, after all accepting statements on face value is a normal human reaction, certainly for people without a direct interest.
A Zionist master stroke, was the expression “Anti Semite” which inaccurately replaces the more specific and correct definition of “Anti Jewish”.
The definition of Semite is “Of Middle Eastern Origin” it did not define religious beliefs, simply ethnic origins, used as it commonly is, “Anti Semite” neatly disenfranchises Christian and Islamic beliefs, dismissed as though Jesus and Mohammed have no relevance as prophets of God.
Like Anthony Davis, I too am thankful that The Foreign Policy Journal has got it`s pant`s on, and allows contributors such as Mr Bolton, to do a bit of running.
The definition of “Semite” is not “Of Middle Eastern origin.” The word, which was coined in the 19th century, refers to a family of languages and its speakers. Its popular misunderstanding and misuse by people like yourself made it very easy to turn it into a term of opprobrium aimed at Jews. A better term would be Jew hatred. Jew hatred, however, is not a social or historical phenomenon. It is a pathological phenomenon that is the product of the scarred and twisted psyche of the Jew hater, reinforced nowadays by Israel hatred, which is a respectable form of Jew hatred in a
time when Jew hatred as such has become unfashionable.
The languages were all “Of Middle Eastern Origin” Fred, Semite never had a religious connotation, it was as you say, a word to describe a “family of (Middle East) languages”.
My point was the use of “Anti Semite” instead of “Anti Jewish” disenfranchises Christian and Moslem religions.
The British Community Security Trust, a Jewish organisation that records anti Jewish acts and publishes the figures annually, uses the expression Ant Semite, yet It does not record anti Moslem (or Christian) acts.
I have observed in debates such as this one, people like yourself eventually resort to statements claiming Jew Hatred (or Nazi lover) in an attempt to reinforce their beliefs, then refuse to debate further, claiming righteous indignation.
With the greatest respect Fred, you have taken the first step in a childish reaction. .
I am grateful for truthful information such as this. Thank you Mr. Bolton! Apart from helping the World, you just may help a Jew or two to break free of the insane system they live under – which is completely materialistic and a terribel dead end for any human being. Perhaps there are some who are intellligent enough and brave enough to escape their monstrously cruel leaders!
–“Jesus is a monkey” — Spray painted at the door of Trappist monastery in Latrun outside Jerusalem — quoted by K R Bolton
Despite these blasphemous remarks against the dignity of a recognised prophet (peace be upon him) by the Israeli Jews, the Christian world so blindly defends Israel and its atrocities over the Palestinians.
ithe jewish (convert) king Dhu Nuwas wiped out the christians of najran the koran is the only source for this tale(somewhat biased source for jewish history) As a Jew of Yemeni descent I deny that such an event ever took place it is neither found or discussed in any way in the Yemenite Jewish community. The Muslims who wiped out the supposed “jewish” tribes of nothern Arabia, again there is no mention of the existence of such communities in the anals of Jewish history have a koran which is a book replete with the most vile ugly attacks against Jews so as a “PHD” mr. bolton I’m surprised that such an obviously biased unsubstantiated source could be trusted. the Catholic which has been behind the wonton murder of jews for millena including propogating the most vile false blood libel accusations
simon of trent and hugh of lincoln amongst tens of thousands of other examples are sufficent to disqualify them as an unbaised historical source. Bolton you seem to have an axe to grind I would suggest you get a real phd not one that you obviously got from a cracker jack box
Dhu Nawas was a NOMINAL CONVERT TO JUDAISM
You either convert to Judaism, or you don`t, a “Nominal Conversion” is a totally meaningless expression.
As for your claim that the history of Dhu Nuwas is limited to the Koran, I`m sorry to tell you that you are in serious error. Several references to this massacre can be found in Roman inscriptions.
Your automatic denial is quite standard when it comes to shady dealings of historical Jews, In a BBC TV broadcast the Dhu Nuwas murders were mentioned, as an aside, The Board of deputies of British Jews, immediately demanded a BBC apology for “This Lie” only to quickly withdraw that demand, with an acceptance that Dhu Nuwas did indeed murder some 20 thousand simply because they were Christian.
In Tel Aviv there is a Dhu Nuwas Street, there he is regarded as a hero for his actions.
You can deny history, you cannot change it.
Well, Mike, you are going off half-cocked again. By “Roman” inscriptions, I assume you mean Byzantine inscriptions, though I doubt if you know what you mean yourself. I don’t pretend to be a scholar of the period, but I know of no such inscriptions. If you do, by all means translate them for us so we’ll all be wiser.
Christian sources all quote John of Ephesus for these events. The earliest figure for the number of dead in these sources is 200, a number that became inflated in the course of time.
I’m sure you know how things get distorted in the course of time. Take the rumor that 4,000 Jews didn’t show up for work at the World Trade Center on 9/11. This came from a Jerusalem Post article stating: “The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far received the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attacks.” Al-Manar transformed this unremarkable figure into the false claim that 4,000 Israelis had not reported for work at the World Trade
Center on September 11. Because the claim that the 4,000 allegedly missing workers were Jews rather than Israelis sounded slightly more plausible, this soon became the dominant form of the rumor. And in this way an original figure of 200 was inflated to 20,000 and then 70,000.
Actually, what you refer to as Byzantine, should more correctly be referred to as The Holy Roman Empire in the East.
However at the time of Dhu Nuwas massacre there was only The Roman Empire, and it is naive in the extreme to claim Dhu Nuwas did not commit the massacre(s) that are well documented, that was the way it was in those days.
Possibly the worlds greatest mass murdered was Genrikh Yagoda, a Russian Jew, I don`t for a moment think had he been Christian he would have murdered less, his religious beliefs had no bearing on his crimes, he was simply a man for his time, doing Stalin`s bidding.
It`s utterly pointless to deny history.
You still seem to be getting your historical information from comic books. The division of the Roman Empire took place in the fourth century. The Roman Empire in the West ended in the beginning of the fifth century. Perhaps you don’t even know when Dhu Nuwas lived. No one refers to 6th century Byzantine inscriptions as “Roman.” But you are of course avoiding the issue. Quote us one of these inscriptions. Show us real documentation for the massacre of 20,000 and not 200 people. And what does the fact that Yagoda was Jewish have to do with anything? Why do you even think to mention it? To prove what?
And a propos of your remark about the “shady dealings of historical Jews,” that is precisely the kind of remark that the Jew haters habitually make. That is the way the Nazis used to talk about the Jews. Remember? Jewish bankers controlling the world, Jewish conspiracies, well poisoning, Host desecration, ritual murder. Maybe you’re so used to talking about Jews in a certain way that you’re not even aware of what you’re saying. But that’s your problem.
Well Fred, you are following the well trodden path of all who are out of their depth and unwilling to accept an apposing view, by prefacing your comments with insults, then to put words into the other parties mouth, why do you need to do that?
Pope Urban in 1095 called for a Crusade to aid “The Holy Roman Empire in the East”. Alexios Komnenos of Constantinople deferred to Rome as the ultimate power.
A written source by the Bishop of Beth Arsham, still exists, dated 524CE, it describes a massacre of 20,000 Christian souls by King Dhu Nuwas.
Jon Benjamin, the Chief Executive of the British Board of Deputies, who accused the BBC of “Anti Semitism” when the Dhu Nuwas massacre was mentioned, apologised saying;
“Initial research showed Dhu Nuwas was a “Renogade convert” and not a real Jew”, this is the version you clearly wish to believe.
However Professor Dan Shapira of Bar-Iilan University, a specialist in that field, commenting on Benjamin`s accusations said: “It seems to me there is nothing to complain about, it was a historical episode – there are people from the Jewish Kingdom
of Himyar among those buried at Beit-she`arin in Israel”.
My comments regarding Genrikh Yagoda was to show that religion has no relevance, Yagoda was a murderer of Russian Christiand and Russian Jews, his religion was not a factor, I made that very clear, why you should find it difficult to understand is baffling.
I could list thousands of historical massacres committed by one religion on another, or between one religion, it`s not so long ago in Britain Catholics were burning Protestants, then Protestants were burning Catholics, all for the Love of God.
But to deny Dhu Nuwas was pretty good at showing his “love of God” is pointless, as are your Hitler jibes, not only pointless but childish.
Going off on a dozen tangents won’t obscure the fact that you are faking it again. Simeon did not speak of 20,000 deaths. He actually spoke of 2,000. Johannes Psaltes, on the other hand, reports only 200 deaths. The number kept going up and up. All you have to do is add a zero.
You are confusing the papal designation of Byzantium and relations between the two churches with the period before the barbarian conquest of Rome. But never mind. Your sense of history is so confused that it is pointless to correct you. You can go right on calling Byzantine inscriptions Roman but I notice that you haven’t quoted any.
I mentioned that your remark about the “shady dealings of historical Jews,” is precisely the kind of remark that the Jew haters habitually make and that this is the way the Nazis used to talk about the Jews. I notice that you don’t have anything to say about that either.
I addressed every point you attempted to make Fred, yet you insist on stating “going off on a dozen tangents” what`s the point in doing that?
It seems you are the only one who believes only what suits, is your only references the Virtual Jewish Lie-brary? I`m forced to that conclusion.
Personally I don`t have a belief in God, and I certainly don`t believe those who claim they speak “the word of God”, but all power to the elbows of those who have strong monoethist beliefs irrespective of the Prophet they prefer.
That said, I`m not convinced with your underlying insistence that anyone converting to judaism suddenly becomes perfect in every way, and also bestowed with a belief that all Goyim are quite evil.
R ovadia yosef clearly said afterwards he neant Arab Terrorists and not simply “non jews” There is anti religious bias in Haaretz. For decades.
Old Hack “Israel Shahak” has been debunked for many years including twisting around context of texts.
You quote a major portion from your hate article that unreliable source Issa Nakhleh, who said in Nov.14.1972 that Hitler didn’t kill Jews… he also participated in holocaust deniers IHR in 1981-2 and his “work” is quoted by all neo nazis.